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There’s average college dorms, then there’s Oklahoma’s Headington Hall, a state-of-the-art residence hall that began housing student-athletes Sunday. The new hall cost $75 million to build and will house 380 students in total. The rooms will be apartment-style two- and four-bedroom suites, according to The Daily Oklahoman.

Due to NCAA rules, only 49 percent of the hall can be consisted of athletes, but the newly-opened dorm will allow all of OU’s incoming student-athletes to live in the same building, athletics director Joe Castiglione said.

He expects the new hall will benefit the Sooners on the recruiting front.

“Few places have a chance to put everything under one roof and located so perfectly right in the basic center of the campus where people can walk to class easily,” Castiglione told the paper. “Student-athletes can get to many of the athletic facilities in which they train or in some cases compete. The various elements of this facility — one in particular would be the dining facility — that has been really an expression of everything state-of-the-art about nutrition opportunities.”

Oklahoma receiver Sterling Shepherd was among those moving in Sunday.

“You get your own space,” Shepherd told The Oklahoman. “You don’t have to wait on one guy to take a shower. Durron and I did good about it, but now it’s just, if we’re about to go out, I can get my shower and he can get his.”

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